RINKO KAWAUCHI - Light and Shadow
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1 rue des Minimes
09709759181 Rue des Minimes
75003 Paris
France
Rinko Kawauchi
Light and Shadow
Published by Super Labo, 2014
Book size 14.8 x 21 cm
Pages 74 Pages / 47 Images (color)
Binding Hardcover
Full color offset
Japanese and English text
Limited edition of 1000
ISBN 978-4-905052-67-8
"April 2011. Ishimaki. Onagawa. Kesennuma. Rikuzentakata. All these places were just so quiet. I realized for the first time how quietness connotes fear. There were no sounds. Instead, there were only fragments of what used to be part of peoples' lives, strewn about in piles on the ground. Against this leveled ground of rubble, the sky looked broader and more expansive than ever. Standing there for a while, I considered the smallness of my existence; so small that even a taste of wind could have blown me away.
In that quiet space, I saw a pair of pigeons—one black and one white."
Rinko Kawauchi
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April 2011, Rinko Kawauchi discovers the silence of the cities destroyed by the earthquake. She captures this fragile balance between before and after, between light and shadow, symbolized by one of these first photos taken after the disaster of two birds: one white the other black.